PREFACE. 



After many delays, arising almost entirely from engagements 

 of a professional character, I am at last enabled to present this 

 work to the public. 



It professes to be a plain practical treatise upon the 

 management of the Horse, and upon the diseases and acci- 

 dents to which that noble animal is liable ; together with 

 ample details of those modes of treatment which I have found 

 to be the most efficient and rational hitherto recommended. 



This book has been written from a strong conviction that 

 it is wanted. A plain, useful work, upon Veterinary Hygiene 

 and the practice of Veterinary Medicine — one that should be 

 scientific, without any parade of science on the part of its 

 author — one that should be in accordance with the advanced 

 spirit of scientific research so characteristic of the age, — has 

 long been required. If, therefore, the present volume does not 

 meet this want, its deficiencies will not arise from any lack 

 of industry on the part of the author, but rather from his 

 inability to understand, or his want of power to supply, what 

 is so essentially necessary. 



